Knockdown cabinet or the like



June 29 1943. R. TRIANA KNOCK-DOWN CABINET OR THE LIKE Filed Nov. 24, 1942 IN V EN TOR. Rafael Z'rz'and BY g g 2 Patented June 29, 1943 KNOCKDOWVN CABINET OR THE LIKE Rafael Triana, New York, N. Y., assignor to Mortimer A. Gersten, Lee Gersten, and Louis Gersten, copari-ners doing business as Gersten Brothers, New York, N. Y.

Application November 24, 1942, Serial No. 466,712

7 Claims.

The present invention relate to cabinets of the knock-down type, made of fibre-board, cardboard or the like, and more particularly to brackets for hanging a shelf within such cab inets.

Cabinets of the character mentioned, comprise separate top and bottom ends, a front door or other suitable closure means, and a body madeof a single sheet bent to form the walls of the structure. Such is their usual make-up. For a shelf within the cabinet, a sheet member is usually provided, which is secured along one of its edges to a wall, in swingable relation therewith, so that it could be bent to lie flat against such wall when the cabinet is in knock-down condition.

To attach the shelf member to a cabinet body is unwieldly and cumbersome because of the large size of such body to .be handled by the worker in the factory and the large assembly space needed for quantity production. To hasten manufacture at this phase, has brought about the following improvement, and therefore, the principal object of this invention is to provide for a cabinet of the class set forth, a novel and improved shelf attaching means associated with the top end or cover of the cabinet, which is a comparatively small member to handle, and therefore convenient, practical and easy for the factory worker to expedite.

A further object hereof, is to provide a novel and improved shelf supporting means for cabinets of the type mentioned, which is capable of being folded into compact relation with the cabinet component it is associated with, for knockdown position.

Another object of this invention is to provide a shelf supporting means of the type described, of novel and improved construction, which although carried by the top end or cover member of the cabinet, nevertheless, any stres due to weight of articles which may be on the shelf, is borne, not by the cover member, but by the body of the cabinet, along the vertical plane of a wall.

Still another object hereof is to provide a novel and improved shelf bracket of the character mentioned, which is easily adjustable to vary the position of the shelf within the cabinet.

A further object of this invention is to provide novel and improved means of the class set forth,

which is easy to manufacture and use, cheap and simple in construction, and efficient in carrying out the purposes for which it is designed.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent as this disclosure proceeds.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a shelf member.

Fig. 5 shows a cabinet which includes the structure shown in Fig. 1 and the shelf.

Fig. 6 is a section taken at lines 6-6 in Fig. 5.

Fig. '7 is an end view of a bracket of slightly modified form adapted for the practice of the within invention.

Fig. 8 is a front view of Fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is an end view of another modified form of bracket.

Fig. 10 is a front view of Fig. 9.

In the drawing, the numeral l5 generally designates a fibre-board cabinet of the knock-down type, having side walls IS, a rear wall H, front closure means l8, and flanged end walls, as for instance the top cover [9 and the bottom end 20. The bracket 2 I, may also be made of fibre-board, card-board-like, or other suitable bendable sheet material, bent to comprise a body strip 22, tor

minating at its top end in the hook or channel component 23, and at its lower end, in the hook: or channel element 24 which is upright; said hooks or channels being at op osite sides of the bracket body. Although the embodiment illustrated shows only one such bracket 2| used, it is I evident that two or more such brackets may be associated with a single top cover I 9, for the support of a shelf 25, if the width of the cabinet requires or design desires a pair of brackets or such number as may be preferred.

Element 23 of hook 23, is secured to the inner surface of cover flange !9, so that book member 23 lies within the corner formed by the juncture of said flange with the covers panel I9", The numeral 26 indicates a scored line on bracket 2|, about which the body member 22 of said bracket can be swung to lie adjacent panel i9 for knock-down condition. The numeral 2'! is a spacer element inserted within channel or hook 28, and staples or other suitable fastening means are employed to maintain the assembly at the lower end of the bracket 2|. The flange 25' of the shelf 25, is adapted to be set within the hook or channel 28; hook or channel 23 being set atop the upper edge of one of the body walls of the cabinet, namely in the embodiment shown, the rear wall H. An element 29 is secured to the inner surface of the front wall component of the cabinet, which element 29 acts as a stop supporting the forward end of the shelf 25. It is to be noted that any stress due to articles carried on the shelf 25, would be borne entirely or substantially so, by the rear wall of the cabinet, in a vertical direction in the plane of said rear wall l1, and by stop 29, but that no stress due to such shelf load would be borne by the top cover l9.

' When desired, the shelf position may be altered by using one of the brackets 30 or 3!, which are of the extensible type, that is, the distance between their respective hook members 23 and 24 may be adjusted. Either body 3| may be folded into a 2 fold and the resulting plys thereof secured by a suitable pinning or fastening means 32, as in the embodiment shown in Fig. "7, or by rolling up the bottom end of the bracket 3|, and pinning the plys with a fastener 32, through the registering series of holes 33 through the several plys, always forming the hook or channel 34 to receive the shelf flange 25 therein.

This invention is capable of numerous forms and various applications without departing from the essential features herein disclosed. It is therefore intended and desired that the embodiments set forth herein be deemed illustrative and not restrictive and that the patent shall cover all patentable novelty herein disclosed; reference being had to the following claims rather than to the specific description herein to indicate the scope of this invention.

I claim:

1. In combination with a cabinet including walls and a separate top cover having a downward flange on one end positioned exterior the cabinet, a bracket comprising a body member having a shelf supporting means at its lower end and an element hinged at the top of said member and forming a hook; said element being secured to the inner surface of the flange of the top cover whereby said bracket will depend downwardly from said cover; said hook being adapted to rest on and straddle the top edge of one of the walls of the cabinet when the top cover is mounted atop the walls, a sheet shelf member supported at an edge thereof by the shelf supporting means and a second shelf supporting means extending within the cabinet adapted to support the shelf member along another edge thereof, whereby the shelf member is maintained in use position; said body member of the bracket being adapted. to be swung to lie adjacent the top member when the cabinet is to be in knock-down condition.

2. A combination as defined in claim 1, wherein the hinge line, about which the body member of the bracket could swing, is above the point of attachment of the element at the top of said body member with the flange of the top cover.

3. A combination as defined in claim 1, wherein the hinge line, about which the body member of the bracket could swing, is a distance from the underside of the top cover not exceeding the distance from said underside to the bottom edge of the flange of said top cover.

4. A combination as defined in claim 1, wherein the body member of the bracket is extensible.

5. In combination with a cabinet including walls and a separate top cover having a downward flange on one end positioned exterior the cabinet, a bracket having a body member with a hook element at its lower end extending from one side of said body member, and a second element hinged at the top of said member forming a hook extending from the opposite side of the body member; said second element being secured to the inner surface of the flange of the top cover whereby said bracket will depend down-- wardly from said cover; said upper book being adapted to rest on and straddle the top edge of one of the walls of the cabinet when the top cover is mounted atop the walls, a sheet shelf member having a downward flange at one edge thereof; said flange being adapted to set within the lower hook of the bracket, and means extending within the cabinet adapted to support the shelf member along another edge thereof, whereby the shelf is maintained in use position; the body member of the bracket being adapted to be swung to lie adjacent the top member when the cabinet is to be in knock-down condition,

6. A combination as defined in claim 5, where in the bracket is formed bendable sheet material.

'7. In combination with a cabinet including walls and a separate top cover, a bracket com prising a body member having a shelf supporting means at its lower end; said bracket being hinged of a single strip of at its upper end to the cover and adapted to be swung to lie adjacent said cover when the cabinet is to be in knock-down condition and to depend from the cover within the cabinet when the cabinet is in erected condition, a sheet shelf member supported at an edge thereof by the shelf supporting means, and means extending Within the cabinet adapted to support the shelf member along another edge thereof, whereby the shelf member is maintained in use position. RAFAEL 'I'RIANA. 

